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Hoagie (2025)

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Hoagie (2025)

Overview

Hoagie is a 2025 horror-comedy directed by Matt Hewitt, who co-wrote the screenplay with Ryan Morley. Brendan Bean, a kindly family man played by Ryan Morley, discovers a mysterious egg that hatches an impish creature capable of granting great power, for good or ill. The cast includes Stephen Heath and Lenae Day.


Starring Cast


Rating & Dimensions

Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Leans Progressive

Political: Leans Left
Diversity: Not Rated
Family Values: Mixed
Christianity: Negative

Viewer Rating
3.0

Overview

Hoagie is a 2025 horror-comedy directed by Matt Hewitt, who co-wrote the screenplay with Ryan Morley. Brendan Bean, a kindly family man played by Ryan Morley, discovers a mysterious egg that hatches an impish creature capable of granting great power, for good or ill. The cast includes Stephen Heath and Lenae Day.


Starring Cast

Detailed Bias Analysis

Analyzing...
Leans Progressive

Primary

The film's central conflict pits a compassionate everyman against a deranged right-wing militia seeking to exploit a magical creature, using satire to mock their authoritarian tendencies. This portrayal aligns the narrative with progressive critiques of political extremism.

Publicly available information on the film's casting and storyline provides no clear indicators of diversity, equity, or inclusion elements. Reviews and synopses focus on horror-comedy aspects without addressing representation or thematic critiques related to traditional identities.

Secondary

In this creature-feature horror, the nuclear family unit frames the protagonist's everyman setup but stays sidelined as he bonds with a power-granting imp, yielding no substantive exploration of domestic roles or values. The villain's annihilator backstory implicitly condemns family destruction without delving into norms.

A white supremacist militia called The Promised Men employs Christian rhetoric and Bible references to justify violence and condemn LGBT individuals, depicted as deranged antagonists in a satirical horror comedy. The narrative condemns their bigotry without offering nuanced or positive representations of the faith.

The film features no identifiable LGBTQ+ characters or themes, resulting in no portrayal to evaluate.

The film features no transgender characters or themes. Its narrative centers on an impish creature granting powers, with no exploration of transsexual identity or related elements.

The primary female character, Trisha, serves as a comedic store clerk delivering exposition early in the film. Combat occurs later between the male protagonist Brendan Bean, empowered by the creature Hoagie, and a group of male militia members. No female characters engage in or win physical fights against male opponents.

Hoagie presents an original story with newly created characters, lacking any adaptation from prior source material or historical figures that would involve gender swaps.

Hoagie presents an original narrative with newly created characters like Brendan Bean and Benny Piazza, lacking any source material or historical basis that establishes prior racial depictions, so no race swaps occur.


Viewer Rating Breakdown

3.0

Viewer Rating

Combines user and critic ratings from four sources

User Ratings

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3.0

Critic Ratings

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